Robert M Treppendahl
Business Owner and Executive Coach
I have owned a landscaping company for the past 10 years. I started it at age 24, and now at age 34, I have more or less, worked myself out of a job. I read the book, The 4 hr workweek, five years ago and really set out to do that. We are there. My business journey took a major turn in October of 2016 when I ran into a fellow business owner in the landscape world at an event hosted by our mutual supplier at a Nascar Race. This conversation with my new friend, Garrett, ended up being the paradigm shift my business needed. Up until that point I had struggled as a business, growing in revenue rapidly but also swimming in debt and working 90 hrs a week. Between Garretts advice and mentorship and implementing traction tools, I was able to turn around a company almost half a million in debt (much of it high interest loan shark debt) into a profit machine that paid off all the debt in just over three years, and now with a very capable leadership team which allows me time to travel with my family. As I look to the future, I want to help other business owners achieve the kind of life changing success I have found. And, frankly, I need a new challenge. My company is doing really well, but I am starting to, as many visionaries do, get a little bored with it. Also, my wife and I currently live in Baton Rouge, LA where I was born and raised but we are moving to Greenville, SC on August 1. We want to be able to pursue a more active lifestyle, better weather, more trout fishing, mountains, ect. If we move, I’d keep my company in BR and come back probably every 4-6 weeks.
Key (Non Landscape Work) Events:
Oldest Sister killed by drunk driver in car wreck 2003
Paddled entire MS river summer 2011
Studied abroad in New Zealand 2009
Married Megan in 2015 with 3 kids (all girls)
Started writing memoir in 2021
Launched Podcast in 2021
Launched Coaching biz July 2023
